For most of us, having just spent some quality time with friends and/or family this past week, it is easy for us to understand the value in communion with those who are walking — or have walked — a part of our life’s journey with us.
Even in a great country where so many are happy to position themselves solely in the “spiritual” category as of late, most of our households actually offered “Thanks to God” for both this opportunity for communion and the great feasts often shared at this time.
So, it is rather perplexing to see so many of our people, especially under the cover of the recent pandemic, decide that any participation with a religious family that most of us grew up with, has no more value in our lives, and we seem to avoid it like, well, the plague. We have lots of reasons, but for whatever reason, we have chosen to go it alone. It seems we no longer have any need for the answers to the big questions because, apparently, we’re no longer asking them.
I don’t profess to be an expert, but I have a tremendous sense that character can never really be developed on our own, and avoiding life’s big questions is not a path to “get it done.”
So, this weekend, try to remember the value you found in that communion this past week and re-evaluate that worship service, or Mass, or Quaker meeting, or synagogue you’ve been working so hard to avoid.
And then take a leap of faith that you just might find a very similar value of that there, as well. Remember, we really are all in this together.
Charlie Wasserott IV lives in Doylestown.
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